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Connecting to WinXP from Linux

Well, my bro has a winXP machine and i set one of his drives to share, but when I do a 'smbclient -L blah.blah.blah.blah' it asks for a password....ok I assume its the admin password for XP box, so I try it, but it still says error!
WTF?! I don't believe I have it setup so that u have to enter a pswd to get into the drive? Any help appreciated.

Re:Connecting to WinXP from Linux

Hey, I looked at that page but it doesn't seem to help either &gt;
Ok, I have 'smbclient' installed but not 'samba.' I don't want the WinBox to see Linux, I just want linux to access a drive in the WinBox that I have set as a shared. I followed everything in that link, but I think its only for boxes with samba installed?

Re:Connecting to WinXP from Linux

Substitute &quot;winusername&quot; with a valid username that is set up on the WinXP machine, &quot;winpassword&quot; with the password for this user, &quot;winmachinename&quot; with the network name of the WinXP machine, and sharename with the name of the shared drive on the WinXP machine. If it is successfull you should be able to access all the files on the shared WinXP drive in the ~/win folder.

Re:Connecting to WinXP from Linux

Ok Cloverm, tried that too, it says:
2619: session setup failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess ( Access denied.)
SMB connection failed.
Dangit!! &gt; Am I just gonna have to install SAMBA?! Sorry guys, but I can't seem to find anything on this. Everything I look for just concentrates on the samba server. Hopefully u guys/gals have any more ideas? Oh, I've only been messin wit linux for about a month( counting the days total ;D ) so bear with me. Thanks guys.

Re:Connecting to WinXP from Linux

Re:Connecting to WinXP from Linux

Anyway, it looks like the username and/or password is incorrect for the WinXP machine. Try to create a new user account on the WinXP machine with a new username and password and try to use that to connect.